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CVE-2016-4072

CRITICAL 9.8 CVSS 3.0
Published
May 20, 2016
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
cve@mitre.org
Weakness
CWE-20
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The Phar extension in PHP before 5.5.34, 5.6.x before 5.6.20, and 7.x before 7.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted filename, as demonstrated by mishandling of \0 characters by the phar_analyze_path function in ext/phar/phar.c.

Affected products and versions

  • PHP versions 5.5.0, 5.5.0alpha1, 5.5.0alpha2, 5.5.0alpha3, 5.5.0alpha4, 5.5.0alpha5, 5.5.0alpha6, 5.5.0beta1, 5.5.0beta2, 5.5.0beta3, 5.5.0beta4, 5.5.0rc1, 5.5.0rc2, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.7, 5.5.8, 5.5.9, 5.5.10, 5.5.11, 5.5.12, 5.5.13, 5.5.14, 5.5.15, 5.5.16, 5.5.17, 5.5.18, 5.5.19, 5.5.20, 5.5.21, 5.5.22, 5.5.23, 5.5.24, 5.5.25, 5.5.26, 5.5.27, 5.5.29, 5.5.30, 5.5.31, 5.5.32, 5.5.33, 5.6.0alpha1, 5.6.0alpha2, 5.6.0alpha3, 5.6.0alpha4, 5.6.0alpha5, 5.6.0beta1, 5.6.0beta2, 5.6.0beta3, 5.6.0beta4, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.6.8, 5.6.9, 5.6.10, 5.6.11, 5.6.12, 5.6.13, 5.6.14, 5.6.15, 5.6.16, 5.6.17, 5.6.18, 5.6.19, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4

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